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CSS Bootstrap 4 Basics (Retired) Building Forms with Bootstrap Custom Form Controls for Cross-Browser Consistency

Posted by Merissa Acosta
Merissa Acosta
6,163 Points

Bootstrap Forms

How do I control where the information that is gathered with the form goes? I would like the information gathered to be displayed in an email.

2 Answers

Andrew Shook
Andrew Shook
31,709 Points
Andrew Shook
Andrew Shook
31,709 Points

Technically, the action attribute of the form elements controls where the information in the form is sent. However, in order to transfer to form data to an email you will need a server side program to parse the form data a send an email.

Rich Donnellan
MOD
Rich Donnellan
Treehouse Moderator 27,708 Points
Rich Donnellan
Rich Donnellan
Treehouse Moderator 27,708 Points

Check out the course Build a Basic PHP Website; specifically, the Adding a Basic Form section. This will get you up to speed on server side processing (using PHP obviously).